The Pascagoula City Council voted Tuesday night to approve nearly $200,000 worth of improvements for its fire and police departments.
Inside Pascagoula’s central fire station, the halls are dark, the floors are cracked and the ceilings are exposed.
“It hasn’t been renovated upstairs ever in my career or beyond my career,” Fire Chief Hyler Krebs told WLOX.
The department plans to bust two walls out to achieve a more open layout for a kitchen, dining and living space upstairs.
Crews will also improve lighting throughout the building, replace ceiling tiles and re-paint all the walls and doors.
“All the stations come up here to eat, and so, they really have to have a lot of area,” Chief Krebs said. “And there’s no area up there for them to all gather.”
The building was built 46 years ago.
For these renovations, the department requested $163,025 from the city.